Steph / 37 / INFP / she / מרים בת יעקב
“Opera singer” though I really do mostly oratorio and concert work (i.e. stuff that isn’t staged or with costumes, but I sing in the style that most people associate with opera).
Puerto Rican, Ashkenazi Jewish. Agnostic-atheist by Christian standards. Just plain Jewish by Jewish standards. From an interfaith home, was raised Catholic but grew closer to Judaism and my Jewish heritage in adulthood and officially converted (between me being patrilineal and the fact that I wasn’t raised in the faith, it was still necessary, both for ritual purposes and my own closure). Conversion was Conservative (sect, not politics), I consider myself old-school Reconstructionist (not the more recent turn the sect has taken). I will still post about both faiths. I have joked that I had an “amicable breakup” with Catholicism and it’s pretty much where I stand.
Fandoms over the years have included: Tenchi Muyo!, Chobits, Ouran, Death Note, Hetalia, Star Trek (primarily TNG and DS9). Warner Bros. cartoons I wouldn’t really consider being part of any fandom with it but it was my first hyperfixation as a kid and it still has a special place in my heart and I will still absolutely geek out over it. But most of this blog is Hetalia, Star Trek, Jewish issues, and random shitposts. Sometimes all four. (Oh, and I love guinea pigs a whole lot.)
Re: Hetalia I also post a lot about Jewish!Austria. Full post about that here.
I ship things, so stay away if you’re not cool with that for some reason.
I tag “alcohol” and “body image,” I do not include cw or tw in the tag. Please message me if you’d like something else tagged.
EDIT 8.1.24: I should have put this in my pinned months ago, but I will softblock or block for the intracommunity k-word. (I mean, I obviously block for the slur against us from the outside, too, but I find the intracommunity one to be a horrific thing to invoke. Anyone who isn't already familiar with this word, don't ask, I am not up to discussing it.) I do not care how much I agree if someone is cozying up to people who hate us, I do not believe in invoking that word.
